Axa, the world's largest insurer, plans to stop investing in the tobacco industry to help highlight the human and economic cost of smoking.

The far-right and independent candidates in Austria's presidential run-off are neck-and-neck with the result now depending on postal ballots.

At least 17 schoolgirls, aged between five and 13, are killed by a fire at their dormitory in northern Thailand.

Libyan coastguards say they intercepted boats carrying 850 migrants trying to reach Europe, as Turkey prepares to host a UN humanitarian conference.

Greece says it will begin to evacuate thousands of migrants from the Idomeni camp on its northern border with Macedonia in the coming days.

The spread of Zika is the price being paid for a massive policy failure on mosquito control, says World Health Organization leader Margaret Chan.

India launches an unmanned model space shuttle into orbit, joining the race to develop reusable space crafts.

German drugs and chemicals company Bayer makes a $62bn offer for Monsanto, in a takeover bid that would create the world's biggest agricultural supplier.